DSC 4: Perspectives on Public Administration

Course Objective
The course provides an introduction to the discipline of public administration. This paper
encompasses public administration in its historical context with an emphasis on the various
classical and contemporary administrative theories. The course also explores some of the non-
mainstream trends, including feminism and perspectives from the Global South on public
administration.

Course Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, the student can be expected to
• have a comprehensive understanding of the conceptual roots of the discipline of Public
Administration
• understand how theorising is done in this discipline
• how new perspectives like that of gender influence the orientation of both theory and
practice in the discipline.

Unit 1. Public Administration as a Discipline

a. Ancient Roots of Public Administration: Perspectives from India (Kautilya’s
Arthashastra)
b. Modern PA: An overview of the theoretical journey
c. Principles of Public Administration
d. Theorising Public Administration

Unit 2. Mainstream/ Traditional Theoretical Perspectives:

a. Scientific management (F.W.Taylor)
b. Ideal-type bureaucracy (Max Weber)
c. Human relations theory (Elton Mayo)
d. Rational decision-making (Herbert Simon)
e. Ecological approach (Fred Riggs)

Unit 3. Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives

a. New Public Management, New Public Service
b. Multiple Perspectives on Governance: Good Governance, Collaborative Governance,
Network Governance, Digital Governance

Unit 4. Gender Perspectives on Public Administration

a. Gender and Governance
b. Gender sensitivity and participation in administration

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 Unit wise reading list
Unit 1. Public Administration as a Discipline
a. Ancient Roots of Public Administration
Kumar, A. Administration in Kautilya’s Arthashastra in M.M. Shankhder & G. Kaur Politics in
India Deep and Deep Publicaitons, New Delhi, 2005, pp. 83-94.
Muniyapan, B. Kautilya’s Arthashastra and Perspectives on Organizational Management Asian
Social Science Vol. 4, No. 1 January 2008, PP. 30-34.
b. Modern PA: An overview of the theoretical journey
D. Rosenbloom, R. Kravchuk. and R. Clerkin (2022), Public Administration: Understanding
Management, Politics and Law in Public Sector, 9th edition, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-40.
W. Wilson (2004) ‘The Study of Administration’, in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya (eds),
Administrative Change and Innovation: a Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 85-
101.
c. Principles of Public Administration
Nicholas Henry, Public Administration and Public Affairs, Prentice Hall, Ch 2(Paradigms of
Public Administration).
d. Theorising Public Administration
F. H. George, K. B. Smith, C. W. Larimer and M. J. Licari (2015) The Public Administration
Theory Primer, Chapter Introduction: The Possibilities of Theory, Routledge.
Unit 2. Mainstream/ Traditional Theoretical Perspectives:
D. Gvishiani (1972) Organisation and Management, Moscow: Progress Publishers.
F. Taylor (2004), ‘Scientific Management’, in J. Shafritz, and A. Hyde (eds.) Classics of Public
Administration, 5th Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth.
P. Mouzelis (2003), ‘The Ideal Type of Bureaucracy’ in B. Chakrabarty, And M. Bhattacharya
(eds), Public Administration: A Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
D. Ravindra Prasad, Y. Pardhasaradhi, V. S. Prasad and P. Satyrnarayana (eds.) (2010),
Administrative Thinkers, Sterling Publishers.
M. Weber (1946), ‘Bureaucracy’, in C. Mills, and H. Gerth, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Warren G. Bennis (1973), Beyond Bureaucracy, Mc Graw Hill.
R. Arora (2003) ‘Riggs’ Administrative Ecology’ in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya (eds),
Public Administration: A reader, New Delhi, Oxford University Press.
F. Riggs (1964) Administration in Developing Countries: The Theory of Prismatic Society Boston:
Houghton Miffin.

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Unit 3. Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
a. New Public Management, New Public Service
S.P. Osborne, & K. Mclaughlin, New Public Management in Context in S.P. Osborne, K.
Mclaughlin & E. Ferlie (eds). New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects,
Routledge, London and New York, 2002, pp.7-33.
b. Multiple Perspectives on Governance
A. Manoharan and M. Holzer, E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants
of E-Democracy, IGI Global: PA, USA, 2012.
S. Dhal, E-Governance and Citizen Engagement: New Directions in Public Administration, New
Delhi: Sage Publishers, 2022.
Unit 4. Gender Perspectives on Public Administration
C. Stivers, Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State,
California: Sage, 2002, Introduction.
A. S. Wharton, The Sociology of Gender, West Sussex: Blackwell-Wiley Publishers, 2012.
S. Dhall, Public Policy Discourse and Sexual Minorities: Balancing Democratic Aspirations,
Political Expediency and Moral Rights, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Jan-March 2022.

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 DSC 5: Methods and Approaches in Comparative Political Analysis

Course Objective
This is a foundational course in comparative politics. The aim of this course is to introduce students
to the foundational concepts, methods, approaches and the historical legacy of the discipline. The
paper offers in-depth discussion on methods, different approaches in terms of their advantages and
disadvantages to help understand politics in a critical-comparative framework. Students would be
made familiar to the diversity of approaches to study politics such as institutionalism, political
culture, political economy and specific debates within each of the approaches. Discussion on a
diversity of approaches will highlight different tools, perspectives and parameters to understand
the behaviour and functioning of institutions in a political system. This paper would also impart
students the ability to use the analytical frame of gender with reference to specific issues like the
women’s political representation in comparative perspective. The paper will inculcate reflective
thinking and research aptitude in students as they will learn to apply these critical outlooks in
understanding politics and political processes, particularly from the perspective of developing
societies.

Course Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the course, students would demonstrate:

• An understanding of the nature, scope, methodology, and legacy of the sub-discipline.

• Awareness of the evolution of the sub-discipline of comparative politics and the challenge
of Eurocentrism in the discipline.
• An in-depth understating of various approaches to the study of politics in a comparative
framework.
• A basic training in comparative research.

Themes:

1. Understanding Comparative Politics

a. Nature and scope
b. Why Compare
c. Understanding Comparative Method: How to compare countries: large n, small n,
single countries studies
d. Going beyond Eurocentrism

Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics

2. Political System, Structural functional analysis

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 3. Traditional and Neo-Institutionalisms
a. Historical Institutionalism
b. Rational Choice Theory
c. Sociological Institutionalism

4. Political Culture
a. Civic Culture (Sydney Verba)
b. Subculture (Dennis Kavanagh)
c. Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
d. Post materialism (Ronald Inglehart)
e. Social capital (R. Putnam)

5. Political Economy
a. Underdevelopment
b. Dependency
c. Modernisation
d. World Systems Theory

6. Gendering Comparative Politics

a. The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics
b. Political Representation: Women in Government and Politics

Unit wise reading list

Unit 1. Understanding Comparative Politics

Essential Readings:
Landman, T. (2003). Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction, second edition.
London and New York: Routledge, pp. 3-22.
Gerring, J. (2007) The Case Study: What it Is and What it Does in Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes
(eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, pp 90-122.
Lijphart, A. (1971). Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method. The American Political
Science Review, 65, No. 3, pp. 682-693.
Mohanty, M (1975) ‘Comparative Political Theory and Third World Sensitivity’, in Teaching
Politics, Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 22-38
Chandhoke N (1996) ‘Limits of Comparative Political Analysis ‘, in Economic and
PoliticalWeekly, Vol. 31 (4), January 27, pp.PE 2-PE2-PE8
Kopstein J., and Lichbach, M. (eds) (2005) Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and

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Institutions in a Changing Global Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-5; 16-36;
253-290.
Peters, B. Guy (2020) Approaches in comparative politics, in Caramani, D. (ed.) Comparative
Politics (5th Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Roy, A. (2001) ‘Comparative Method and Strategies of Comparison’, in Punjab Journal of
Politics. Vol. xxv (2), pp. 1-15.
Unit 2. Political System, Structural functional analysis
Almond, Gabriel et al. (2011) Comparing Political Systems, in Comparative Politics Today,
Pearson, pp. 28-38
Almond, Gabriel, Powell G. Bingham, Jr. (1966) An Overview (Ch 2), Comparative Politics, A
Developmental Approach, Stanford University.
Unit 3. Traditional and Neo-Institutionalisms
Blondel, J. (1996) ‘Then and Now: Comparative Politics’, in Political Studies. Vol. 47 (1), pp.
152-160.
Pennington, M. (2009) ‘Theory, Institutional and Comparative Politics’, in J. Bara and M.
Pennington. (eds.) Comparative Politics: Explaining Democratic System. Sage Publications, New
Delhi, pp. 13-40.
Hague, R. and M. Harrop and McCormick, J. (2016) Theoretical Approaches Comparative
Government and Politics: An Introduction. (Tenth Edition). London: Palgrave McMillan.
Hall, P., and Rosemary C.R. Taylor (1996) ‘Political Science and the Three New Institutionalism’,
Political Studies. XLIV, pp. 936-957.
Rakner, L. and R. Vicky (2011) ‘Institutional Perspectives’, in P. Burnell, et. al. (eds.) Political in
the Developing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 53-70.
Unit 4. Political Culture
Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba (1963). The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and
Democracy in Five Nations (Chapter 1).
Welzel, Christian and Ronald Inglehart (2020) Political culture, in Caramani, D. (ed.) Comparative
Politics (5th Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Huntington, Samuel P. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations. Foreign Affairs. 72 (3): 22–49.
Howard, M. (2009) ‘Culture in Comparative Political Analysis’, in M. Lichback and A.
Zuckerman, pp. 134- S. (eds.) Comparative Political: Rationality, Culture, and Structure.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosamond, B. (2008). Political Culture. In Axford, B., Browning, G. K., Huggins, R., &
Rosamond, B. (Eds.), Politics: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London and New York: Routledge, pp.
82-119.

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Putnam, R. (2000) Thinking About Social Change in America (Ch 1), in Bowling Alone: The
Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon and Schuster
Gransci, A., Hegemony (Civil Society) and Separation of Powers, in Prison Notebooks, Excerpt
from Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, edited and translated by Quentin
Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (1999) Elec Book, pp. 506-507.
Unit 5. Political Economy
Chilcote, R. H. (2000) Comparative Inquiry in Politics and Political Economy: Theories and
Issues, Oxford: Westview Press, pp. 31-52, pp. 57-81.
Esteva, G. (2010) Development in Sachs, W. (Eds.), The Development Dictionary: A Guide to
Knowledge as Power (2nd ed.). London: Zed Books, pp. 1-23.
So, A. Y. (1990) Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency and World-
System Theories. London: Sage, pp. 91-109.
Wallerstein, I. (1974) The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for
Comparative Analysis, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 16, pp. 387-415
Unit 6. Gendering Comparative Politics
Baldez, Lisa (2010) Symposium. The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics. March 2010 | Vol.
8/No. 199-205.
Beckwith, Karen (2010) Comparative Politics and the Logics of a Comparative Politics of Gender.
American Political Science Association. Vol. 8, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 159-168
Hague, Rod, Martin Harrop and McCormick (2019) Political Participation in Comparative
Government and Politics: An Introduction (11th Edition) Red Globe Press. pp.223-225.
Krook Mona Lena (2011) Gendering Comparative Politics: Achievements and Challenges.
Politics & Gender 7(1), pp 99-105.

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 DSC 6: Introduction to International Relations: Theories, Concepts and
Debates

Course Objective
This paper introduces students to some of the key theories, concepts and debates of international
relations. While historically contextualizing the evolution of mainstream IR theories, students will
also learn about the leading debates aimed at de-centering and pluralizing the knowledge-base of
IR. The debates and conversations on the genealogies of Indian perspectives on IR are anchored
in this backdrop. The students will learn how to critically engage with the Eurocentric view of IR
through decolonial accounts that foreground the agency of the colonial experience, race and culture
that not only identify proximately with the Global South but are also co-constitutive of European
modernity, the social sciences and the foundations of the IR discipline. The course weaves in some
of the major concepts—power, sovereignty, empire and international order—that push the
boundaries of the discipline through understandings derived from diverse standpoints. The final
segment–– Global IR and the relational turn in international relations–apprises the students with
the new directions in the discipline.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students would have acquired:
• Familiarization with key theories, concepts, and debates of International Relations.
• Comprehensive re-reading of the origin of IR and its mainstream theories and concepts,
with basic tools to question statist ontology and reification of eurocentrism.
• Appreciation of decolonial accounts that challenge the mainstream and parochial
International Relations.
• Understanding of the genealogy and contributions of the IR scholarship in India to the
disciplinary debates through a re-reading of its classical texts and, contemporary writings.
• Analysis of the assumptions and key concepts of IR such as power, sovereignty, empire
and international order.
• Learning about the new directions in IR via a critical engagement with Global IR and the
relational turn in IR.

Unit 1. What is IR and, its Contested Origins (9 lectures)

a. What is IR (1 lecture)
b. Reading the Big Bangs (3 lectures)
c. Bringing in De-colonial Accounts (3 lectures)
d. Understanding the genealogy of IR discipline in India (2 lectures)

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Unit 2. Theories of IR (14 lectures)
a. Introduction to IR Theories (1 lecture)
b. Realpolitik (Kautilya)/ Realism/ Neo-Realism (3 lectures)
c. Liberalism/ Neo-liberalism (3 lectures)
d. Marxism/ Neo-Marxism (3 lectures)
e. Feminism (2 lectures)
f. Constructivism (2 lectures)

Unit 3. Concepts (8 lectures)

a. Power (2 lectures)
b. Sovereignty (2 lectures)
c. Empire (2 lectures)
d. International Order (2 lectures)

Unit 4. Exploring the Future Trajectories (4 lectures)

a. Global IR (2 lectures)
b. A Relational Turn? (2 lectures)

Unit wise reading list

Unit I. What is IR and the story of its contested origins
a. What is IR?
Essential Readings
David Blaney, “Where, When and What is IR?”, Chapter three in ‘International Relations from the
Global South: World of Difference ’Edited by Arlene B, Tickner and Karen Smith. Routledge
(2020): New York.
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen (2019). ‘chp 1- Why study IR’ in Introduction to International
Relations, Theories and Approaches, Oxford University Press: New York, pp.3-32.
Additional Readings
Nicholson, Michael (2002). ‘International Relations: A Concise introduction’, NYU Press: NY.
pp. 1-15.
Devetak, Richard (2012). An introduction to international relations: The origins and changing
agendas of a discipline”, in Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George (eds.) An
Introduction to International Relations, 2nd ed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-19.
b. Reading the Big Bangs
Essential readings
De Carvalho, B., Leira, H., & Hobson, J. M. (2011). The Big Bangs of IR: The Myths That Your
Teachers Still Tell You about 1648 and 1919. Millennium, 39(3), 735–758.
Kevin Blachford. (2021). ‘From Thucydides to 1648: The “Missing” Years in IR and the Missing

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Voices in World History’ International Studies Perspectives, 22:4, pp. 495-508.
Additional readings
Amitav Acharya & Barry Buzan (2019). ‘Introduction’ in A. Acharya & B. Buzan, The Making of
Global International Relations Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary, Cambridge
University Press: UK. pp. 1–7.
Havercroft, J. (2012). “Was Westphalia ‘all that’? Hobbes, Bellarmine, and the norm of non-
intervention”. Global Constitutionalism, [online] 1(01), pp.120-140. Available at:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-constitutionalism/article/was-westphalia-all-
that-hobbes-bellarmine-and-the-norm-of-nonintervention/
Amitav Acharya & Barry Buzan (2019). ‘International Relations up to 1919: Laying the
Foundations’ in A. Acharya & B. Buzan, The Making of Global International Relations Origins
and Evolution of IR at its Centenary, Cambridge University Press: UK. pp. 33-66.
c. Bringing in De-colonial Account
Essential Readings
Peter Vale and Vineet Thakur (2020). ‘IR and the Making of the White Man’s World,’ in Arlene
B. Tickner and Karen Smith (eds.) International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of
Difference, London: Routledge, pp. 56-74.
Shampa Biswas (2020). ‘Postcolonialism’, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (Eds.)
International Relations Theories Discipline and Diversity, OUP: London, pp. 219-234.
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ृ ीय <व=व का उदय', अंतराCDEय सGब'ध, <वकास
पिKलकेशन. (पCृ ठ संNया: 449-469).

Additional Readings
Amitav Acharya, Barry Buzan (2017). “Why is there no Non-Western International Relations
Theory? Ten years on”, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,17(3): September, pp. 341–
370.
Zeynep Gulsah Capan (2017). Decolonising International Relations? Third World
Quarterly, 38:1, 1-15.
Sankaran Krishna (2018). ‘Postcolonialism: The relevance for IR in a globalized world’ in
Randolph Persaud, Alina Sajed (Eds), Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
Postcolonial Perspectives, Routledge: NY, London.
Pinar Bilgin (2016). ‘How to remedy Eurocentrism in IR? A complement and a challenge for The
Global Transformation’, International Theory, 8(3), November: pp. 492-501.
d. Understanding the genealogy of IR discipline in India
Essential Readings
Navnita Chadha Behara (2007). “Re-imagining IR in India”, International Relations of the Asia-
Pacific 7(3): 341-68.

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Kanti P. Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu, eds. (2005). “International Relations in India:
Bringing Theory Back Home” New Delhi: Orient Longman. Chp.1. pp. 17-38
Additional Readings
Ramchandra Guha (2009). ‘Introduction’. In Tagore, R., Nationalism. New Delhi: Penguin.pp. vii-
ix.
T. V. Paul (2009).“ Integrating International Relations Scholarship in India into Global
Scholarship,” International Studies 46(1&2): 129-45.
Martin J. Bayly (2021). Lineages of Indian International Relations: The Indian Council on World
Affairs, the League of Nations, and the Pedagogy of Internationalism, The International History
Review, online first (pp. 1-17), DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2021.1900891.
S. Mallavarapu (2012). ‘Indian Thinking in International Relations’ in B.S.Chimni and Siddharth
Mallavarapu ed. International Relations: Perspectives for the Global South (New Delhi: Pearson,
2012), pp.22-38.
Unit 2. Theories of IR
a. Introduction to IR Theories
Essential Readings
Walt, Stephen M. (1998). “International Relations: One World, Many Theories.” Foreign Policy,
110: 29–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1149275.
S. Mallavarapu (2009). Development of International Relations Theory in India. International
Studies, 46(1–2), 165–183. https://doi.org/10.1177/002088171004600211

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अंतराXCDEय सGब'ध, मैकWमलन पिKलशसX इं]डया WलWमटे ड (पCृ ठ संNया 1 -39).

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नवयथाथXवाद, उदारवाद, नवउदारवाद (पCृ ठ संNया 1 -44), वी एन ख'ना, अंतराCDEय सGब'ध, <वकास
पिKलकेशन.

Additional Readings
Karen A. Mingst, Ivan M. Arreguín-Toft (2019). ‘Approaches to International Relations’ in
Essentials of International Relations (8th edition), Norton: Canada: pp. 3-18.
Toni Erskine (2013). Normative International Relations Theory in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and
Steve Smith (eds.) International Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity. Oxford University
Press: UK, 3rd edition. pp. 36-58.
b. Realpolitique (Kautilya)/ Realism/ Neo-Realism
Essential Readings
Deepshikha Shahi (2019). "Kautilya Reincarnated: Steering Arthaśāstra Toward an Eclectic

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Theory of International Relations” in Kautilya and the Non-Western IR Theory, Springer
International Publishing; Palgrave Pivot. pp.95-126.
Nirmal Jindal (2020). Kautilya’s Realpolitik’ in Nirmal Jindal, Kamal Kumar (eds.). International
Relations: Theory and Practice, Sage Publications, India. Pp.151-170.
Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds.) (2013). International Relations Theories,
Discipline and Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition. (Ch 3: Classical Realism,
pp. 59-76 by Richard Ned Lebow; and Ch 4: Structural Realism’ by John J. Mearsheimer- pp.77-
93).
Waltz, K.N (1990), ‘Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory’, Journal of International Affairs
Editorial Board, Vol.44, No.1, pp.21-37.
Additional Readings
S. Kalyanaraman (2015). ‘Arthashastra, Diplomatic History and the Study of International
Relations in India’, in Pradeep Kumar Gautam et. al. (eds.) Indigenous Historical Knowledge:
Kautilya and His Vocabulary, Volume 1, Pentagon Press: India, pp.1-4.
Medha Bisht (2015). ‘Revisiting the Arthasastra: Back to Understanding IR’ in Pradeep Kumar
Gautam et. al. (eds.) Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary, Volume 2,
Pentagon Press: New Delhi, pp. 20-31.
Cynthia Weber (2010). Realism: is international anarchy the permissive cause of war?’ In
International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction, 3rd ed., New York: Routledge, pp. 13-36.
c. Liberalism/ Neo-liberalism
Essential Readings
Bruce Russett (2013). ‘Liberalism’ in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.) International
Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity, 3rd Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.
94-113.
Jennifer Sterling-Folker (2013). ‘Neoliberalism’ in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.)
International Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity, 3rd Edition, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, pp. 114-131.
Additional Readings
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen (2019). ‘Liberalism’ in Introduction to International Relations,
Theories and Approaches, Oxford University Press: New York, pp.107-142.
Jon C. W. Pevehouse and Joshua S. Goldstein (2018). International Relations, 11th Edition,
Pearson: US (Liberal and Social Theories, pp.83-121).
d. Marxism/ Neo-Marxism
Essential Readings
Mark Rupert (2013). ‘Marxism’ in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds.) International
Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition.
pp.153-170.

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Cynthia Weber (2010). Neo-Marxism: is Empire the new world order? In International Relations
Theory A Critical Introduction, 3rd edition, New York: Routledge, pp.131-158.
Additional Readings
Stephanie Lawson (2015). Theories of International Relations, Contending Approaches to World
Politics, Polity Press: Cambridge, UK (Chapter 6-Marxism, Critical Theory and World Systems
Theory, pp.121-144).
Andrew Linklater (2005). ‘Marxism’ in Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, et al. Theories of
International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, US: pp. 110-137.
e. Feminism
Essential Reading
Ann Tickner, J. (2008). ‘Gender in World Politics’. in Baylis, J., Smith, S., and Owens, P. (eds.).
The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press: pp. 262-277.
J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg. (2013). ‘Chapter 11-Feminism’ in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki,
and Steve Smith (eds.) International Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity. Oxford
University Press: UK, 3rd edition. pp.205-222.

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मैकWमलन पिKलशसX इं]डया WलWमटे ड, इं]डया। (पCृ ठ संNया 331-342)

Additional Reading
Helen M. Kinsella (2020) ‘Feminism’ in John Baylis, and Steve Smith, The globalisation of world
Politics An introduction to international relations, Oxford University Press, 8th Edition. pp 145-
159.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). Feminism without Borders Decolonizing Theory, Practicing
Solidarity, Duke University Press (‘Introduction-Decolonization, Anticapitalist Critique, and
Feminist Commitments’ pp. 1-16).
f. Constructivism
Essential Readings
Michael Barnett. (2020). ‘Chapter 12-Social constructivism’, in John Baylis, and Steve Smith, The
globalisation of world Politics An introduction to international relations, Oxford University Press,
8th Edition. pp. 192-206.
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen (2019). ‘Social Constructivism’ in Introduction to International
Relations, Theories and Approaches, Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 161-177.
Additional Readings
K. M. Fierke (2013). Constructivism in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (Eds.),
International Relations Theories Discipline and Diversity, OUP: UK, NY, Sydney: pp. 187-204.
Stephanie Lawson (2015). Theories of International Relations, Contending Approaches to World

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Politics, Polity Press: Cambridge (Ch 7: Social Theories of International Relations, pp.145-171).
Unit 3. Concepts
a. Power
Essential Readings
David A. Baldwin (2013). “Power and International Relations,” in Handbook of International
Relations, eds. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, Los Angeles, CA: Sage
Publications, pp. 273–274 & p. 280.
M. Barnett and R. Duvall (2005) Power in International Politics. International Organization 59
(1): pp. 39–75.
Additional Readings
Ohnesorge, H.W. (2020). Power in International Relations: Understandings and Varieties. In: Soft
Power. Global Power Shift. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29922-4_2
Jan-Philipp N E Wagner (2014). The Effectiveness of Soft & Hard Power in Contemporary
International Relations. E-international Relations, May 14. Available at: https://www.e-
ir.info/2014/05/14/the-effectiveness-of-soft-hard-power-in-contemporary-international-relations/
b. Sovereignty
Essential Readings

Navnita Chadha Behera (2020).!"State and Sovereignty,#!in Arlene B. Tickner and Karen Smith,
eds., International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference, London: Routledge:
pp.139-160.
Manish Kumar, ‘Revisiting Sovereignty through ancient Indian Notions of Dharma,’ Indian
Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11:1, 2018, pp. 23-37.
Additional Reading
Stephen D. Krasner (2001). “Sovereignty”, Foreign Policy,122 (Jan. - Feb): pp. 20-29.
A. Osiander (2001). Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian
Myth. International Organization, 55(2): pp.251-287.
c. Empire
Essential Readings
T. Barkawi (2010). Empire and Order in International Relations and Security Studies. Oxford
Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.164
H. Münkler (2007). ‘What Is an Empire?’ (pp.1-18) and ‘Empire, Imperialism and Hegemony: A
Necessary Distinction’ (pp. 19-46) in Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient
Rome to the United States. Cambridge: Polity Press.

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Additional Readings
T. Barkawi and M. Laffey (2002). Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations.
Millennium, 31 (1), pp: 109–27.
Ferguson, Yale H. and Richard Mansbach, eds (2008). ‘Superpower, Hegemony, Empire’, in A
World of Polities: Essays on Global Politics, London: Routledge, pp. 200–215.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri (2000) Empire, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
(Chapter 1: ‘Political Constitution of the present’, sub part: ‘World Order'. pp. 3-21).
d. International Order
Essential Readings
Karen Smith (2020). ‘Order, Ordering and disorder’ in Tickner and Smith (Eds) IR from Global
South, London: Routledge. pp. 77-96.
Kanti P. Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu (ed.) (2019). India, the West, and International Order.
Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, ‘Introduction’-pp.1-50.
Additional Readings
R. Baumann, K. Dingwerth (2015). Global governance vs empire: Why world order moves
towards heterarchy and hierarchy. Journal of International Relations and Development 18, 104–
128. https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2014.6.
Upendra Baxi (2003). ‘Operation Enduring Freedom: Towards a New International Law and
Order?’ in Antony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Karin Mickelson, and Obiora C. Okafor (eds.) The
Third World and International Order Law, Politics and Globalization, Brill Academic Publishers:
the Netherlands. Pp. 31-46.
Unit 4. Exploring the Future Trajectories
a. Global IR
Essential Readings
Amitav Acharya (2020) ‘Global International Relations’, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve
Smith (Eds.) International Relations Theories Discipline and Diversity, 4th Edition, Oxford:
Oxford University Press. pp. 304-321.
F. Anderl and A. Witt (2020) Problematising the Global in Global IR. Millennium, 49 (1): 32-57.
Additional Readings
Deepshikha Shahi (2019). ‘Chapter 4: The Advaitic Theory of International Relations: Reconciling
Dualism and Monism in the Pursuit of the ‘Global’ in Advaita as a Global International Relations
Theory. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge: pp.109-142.
Giorgio Shani and Navnita Chadha Behera (2021). ‘Provincialising International Relations
Through a Reading of Dharma,’ Review of International Studies. pp. 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021052100053X

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Essential Readings
Tamara A. Trownsell, Arlene B. Tickner, Amaya Querejazu, Jarrad Reddekop, Giorgio Shani,
Kosuke Shimizu, Navnita Chadha Behera and Anahita Arian, ‘Differing about difference:
relational IR from around the world’, International Studies Perspectives, 22:1, February 2021, pp.
25-64. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaa008
David L. Blaney, Tamara A. Trownsell (2021) Recrafting International Relations by Worlding
Multiply. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi. pp. 45-62, https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-
file/1937147.
Additional Readings
Tamara A. Trownsell, Amaya Querejazu, Giorgio Shani, Navnita Chadha Behera, Jarrad
Reddekop and Arlene B. Tickner Recrafting International Relations through Relationality,” E-
International Relations, January 2019, https://www.e-ir.info/2019/01/08/recrafting-international-
relations-through-relationality/;
Milja Kurki (2021). Relational revolution and relationality in IR: New conversations Review of
International Studies, page 1-16 doi:10.1017/S0260210521000127.

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